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University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say,"...
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife "with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, / so linguistically adroit" in "Flesh, Bone, and Red," to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in "Ode on My Mother's Handwriting." Hamby's poems drift across histories and continents, from early writing and culture in Mesopotamia through the motion-picture heaven that seems so much like Paris, to odes on such thoroughly American subjects as hardware stores, bubblegum, barbecue, and sharp-tongued cocktail waitresses giving mandatory pre-date quizzes to lawyers and "orangutans in the guise of men." As Booklist noted in reviewing her previous collection, Hamby's poems "are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive."
Verlag:
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she...
mehr
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife "with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, / so linguistically adroit" in "Flesh, Bone, and Red," to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in "Ode on My Mother's Handwriting."Hamby's poems drift across histories and continents, from early writing and culture in Mesopotamia through the motion-picture heaven that seems so much like Paris, to odes on such thoroughly American subjects as hardware stores, bubblegum, barbecue, and sharp-tongued cocktail waitresses giving mandatory pre-date quizzes to lawyers and "orangutans in the guise of men." As Booklist noted in reviewing her previous collection, Hamby's poems "are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive.".
Verlag:
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she...
mehr
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife "with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, / so linguistically adroit" in "Flesh, Bone, and Red," to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in "Ode on My M
Contents; I. The Mockingbird Blues; My Translation; The Mockingbird on the Buddha; The History of Apples, Part One; Idolatry; O Deceitful Tongue; The Mockingbird Counts to Ten; The Mockingbird Falls in Love; Run; Vex Me; The Mockingbird Invents Writing; Fang; Thus Spake the Mockingbird; II. 13 Ways of Looking at Paris; Babel; Cinerama; Ode to the Potato; Left Bank Freudian Striptease; Calling the Friends of Friends; Six, Sex, Say; Flesh, Bone, and Red; Shh; 13th Arrondissement Blues; Attention, Citizen Sade; Ode to American English; Brain Radio Harangue; The Tawdry Masks of Women
III. American OdesOde to Hardware Stores; Ode to Barbecue; Ode on Satan's Power; Ode on My Waist; Ode on My Sharp Tongue; Ode to W. E. Diemer, the Inventor of Bubblegum; Ode to Rock 'n' Roll; Ode to My 1977 Toyota; Ode on My Mother's Handwriting; Ode to the Bride of Frankenstein; Notes; Acknowledgments